The Tour Championship begins Thursday, and it's hard not to think of Tiger Woods snapping a 1,876-day winless streak at East Lake three years ago.
That now feels like an eternity ago.
This year, Woods' absence will once again hover over the FedExCup playoffs finale, which Woods has, aside from 2018, missed every year since 2014.
Woods has mostly been out of the public eye since his Feb. 23 car crash, but if anything gives hopes for another comeback, it's the 2018 Tour Championship.
Understandably, many point to the 2019 Masters as the watershed moment of Woods' most recent comeback, but it was seven months earlier at East Lake when the then 42-year-old gave the world a sight most people, including Woods, thought they'd never see again when, after four back surgeries, he notched his first win since August 2013 at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.